VMWARE Virtual SAN
There were situations when I was wondering why VMWARE doesn’t provide an ability to share the local disks so that those can leveraged as shared storage for the cluster consumption – trimming down the costs associated with the need to have local SAN.
Finally, we have an answer from VMWARE – Virtual SAN built into the hypervisor in Virtual Center 6.0. I love this feature – a true winner for companies looking for enabling the clustering ability in a cost effective manner. The solution also let you configure flash storage for caching purposes where I/O performance is critical. I am so excited with this solution – no more worries on deploying solutions in remote sites where there is need to have High Availability requirements.
This is a true winner – “A muscle to tackle performance and and business critical applications.”
Here are the useful links – Virtual SAN 6.0
What is this vCPU and pCPU is all about in VMware?
Have you ever wondered, how the allocation of CPUs are done? And how many ways We can configure systems and it’s impact. This blogs tries to answer some of those questions.
vCPU
Not physical or logical ones(refers to hyper thread enabled ones). It refers to execution context based virtual CPUs… which also might very well be sleeping as well.
pCPU
Refers to the physical CPU or cores or it also might refer to logical CPUs in case hyper threading is available and enabled.
A great resource, if you want to know more….
mjain
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